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injunctionnoun(law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
enjoinmentnoun(obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition.

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enjoinmentnoun(obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition.
injunctionnoun(law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
banningnounThe act by which something is banned; a prohibition.
forbiddingnounAppearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
outlawingverb(transitive) To declare illegal.
prohibitingverb(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
prohibitionnounA law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
enjoindernounA request or demand from an authority.
enforcingverbTo keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
enforcesverbTo keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
injunctionsnoun(law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
enforceverbTo keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
enactionnounThe process of enacting something.
enactingverbEnactment.
enforcibleAlternative form of enforceable. [Capable of being enforced.]
instructingverb(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
decreeingverbThe giving out of a decree.
injunctivenoun(grammar, uncountable) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually resembling an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
instructsverb(informal) shortened form of instructions
commandingverbImpressively dominant; very good and impressive.

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